Add to ORKGStriking changes are occurring in family structure in the developing world, and fertility is falling due to a weakening of traditional family controls and a declining value given to procreation. A model of mar-riage focused on marriage as economic transaction helps explain these diverse trends. The findings reveal a serious threat to young women in such transitional societies. The declining value of their procreative power puts women at the mercy of impersonal, market-driven economic forces with which they are ill equipped to deal. JEL classification: F02; J13; J1
The fertility rate in the United States is declining because the majority of women are reaching the ...
The globalization of the economy has placed tremendous pressure on the modern family. Throughout the...
Several developing countries are currently experiencing a significant fertility decline, however, ac...
A secular decline in fertility has taken place across the globe within a short span of human history...
Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) ...
Fertility fell rapidly in developed countries in the second half of the twentieth century, a period ...
Over the past six decades, fertility rates have fallen dramatically in most middle-and low-income co...
During the twentieth century, the global population has gone through unprecedented increases in econ...
This article presents an overview of recent fertility declines and their effects on social change in...
Hong Kong SAR has experienced an especially rapid fall in fertility over the course of just two deca...
This paper argues that fertility in industrialized countries is strongly affected by a woman's abili...
There are significant economic implications of an ageing population and in developed societies the ...
As we saw in Chapter 1, research on family behavioral change has been dominated by two theoretical f...
This open access book provides an overview and analysis of the causes and consequences of the massiv...
The market is very short-term and favors flexible, childless people averse to risk, while the privat...
The fertility rate in the United States is declining because the majority of women are reaching the ...
The globalization of the economy has placed tremendous pressure on the modern family. Throughout the...
Several developing countries are currently experiencing a significant fertility decline, however, ac...
A secular decline in fertility has taken place across the globe within a short span of human history...
Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) ...
Fertility fell rapidly in developed countries in the second half of the twentieth century, a period ...
Over the past six decades, fertility rates have fallen dramatically in most middle-and low-income co...
During the twentieth century, the global population has gone through unprecedented increases in econ...
This article presents an overview of recent fertility declines and their effects on social change in...
Hong Kong SAR has experienced an especially rapid fall in fertility over the course of just two deca...
This paper argues that fertility in industrialized countries is strongly affected by a woman's abili...
There are significant economic implications of an ageing population and in developed societies the ...
As we saw in Chapter 1, research on family behavioral change has been dominated by two theoretical f...
This open access book provides an overview and analysis of the causes and consequences of the massiv...
The market is very short-term and favors flexible, childless people averse to risk, while the privat...
The fertility rate in the United States is declining because the majority of women are reaching the ...
The globalization of the economy has placed tremendous pressure on the modern family. Throughout the...
Several developing countries are currently experiencing a significant fertility decline, however, ac...